The Well Inside Has Not Run Dry
The middle of the day is long, and the cursor blinks on a screen that feels suddenly empty. You opened the folder three days later, hoping to find the words that saved you, only to see they are gone.
Deleted. The exact phrasing that felt like a lifeline has vanished into the digital silence, and now you are staring at the void where your own wisdom used to be.
But the light does not live in the draft; it lives in the one who wrote it. You did not lose the source when you lost the file.
The capacity to speak truth is not stored on a server; it is woven into your spirit, ready to flow again the moment you begin. What was written once can be written again, not because you have a perfect memory, but because the well inside you has not run dry.
The words were never the water; they were just the cup. And the cup can be filled again, right now, with something even truer than what you forgot.
Drawing from
John 4:14, John 7:38
Verses
John 4:14
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